Saturday, August 25, 2007

My Japanese embroidery class was wildly successful (meaning that nobody dropped out and the projector didn't die in the middle of a lecture). I can now relax for a week here in beautiful Bath before boarding yet another plane for home.

In the meantime, here's a bit of Neibling's brilliant Lyra (scroll down Jane's page to see the finished piece). This is a complicated knit, but wonderful fun--each pattern row is different and there's a resting knit row between them. I first swatched with Zephyr, but decided the yarn was too indelicate, so I switched over to Gentle in the Dark Ruby color.

I am sorry I had to leave it back in the US, but I have too much to do here in England and this piece requires concentration.

I did, however, bring the Wings of the Moth, which is being worked in pale green Art Yarns mohair/silk. The pattern requires no concentration whatsoever and the silky, fuzzy yarn is especially pleasant to handle in the lovely cool weather we are having here. The pale green is very slightly variegated and the exact color of a Luna moth.

This was the yarn reserved for the Bee shawl, so now I have to go yarn shopping again. Darn!

The Wings shawl is looking wonderful, a perfect yarn for it! Yes, too bad you must! shop for new lace yarn - you might even have! to get more than one. That's just to be sure the swatching can go on uninterupted (or other very valid reason). :)Terry

You have to shop for yarn? Oh the pain! LOL. The Moth shawl looks beautiful and the color is such a wonderful fit! Your Lyra is looking quite beautiful. The color is fantastic! I'm up to row 111 since I got to take mine on vacation. Other knitting languished I'm afraid. Glad the projector held up for your class!